by steinaech | Posted in Gaming

Originally written May 30 2005, mistakes and all. Found on an old backup cd.

System: PC

Graphics: 7/10
Story: 9/10
Gameplay: 10/10
Extras: 7/10
Overall: 8.25/10

Graphics: Well, theres not much to say about the graphics. There just basic RTS
graphics like any other game except just a little better.

Story: Rise of Nations has 4 types of Story mode. The best out of these is the
Conquer the World campaign. You pick your contury and fight other countries to
take them over and gain bonuses by kiling them like getting a new army or Economy
bonuses for the next battel you do. It’s much like risk if you ever played it.

Gameplay: Though there are not many ages because they condensed it by making bigger
catagories, this is still an awesome game. It goes way in depth. You have to control
your economy by upgraded and making sure you don’t produce to much of one thing. If
your producing to much wood or something your economy begins to whack out. You have a
national border which is the limit for where you can build. You expand your border by
building cities and upgrading a the University. The government also plays a major role
in this game. Depending on which way you go depends on either your economy, or your
military. All of the wonder can have a drastic change on your empire to depending on
which ones your build on how you use them buy make sure you protect them becuase once
they become out of date you can’t build them anymore obviously. The only thing I,
personally, don’t like about this game is the low population limit which is 200. It
won’t get any higher than that. Another cool aspect of this game is when fighting you
can take over the computers town but killing all nearby units and them protect it for
a couple mintues and then its yours.

Extras: One of the main extras is the map editor. Like just about all RTS games you
can make your own maps to play on and design them however you want. This game comes
with about 15-20 different nations to choose from which is prerry awesome. And each
nations troops look different form other nations.

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